Hi Everyone & Pleasant Dreams!

I have three comments! And such nice ones, I feel so special :-) Now I feel obliged to put up my "About Me" info, I've done a 100 things list, which ended up being 300, I'm not that interesting really, I'm just overly verbose. One of my few real talents growing up was when the teacher would say "OK, everyone write a page on so and so" and I'd end up writing three pages. And being able to proofread pages and have spelling & grammatical errors jump off the page at me.

It has been raining all day, which I've enjoyed since I didn't have to leave the house. I love listening to the rain, though with all the lightning I'm amazed our power hasn't blinked even once. And now that we have insulated windows it's sometimes a little too quiet in the house...

One of the joys of having a weblog is having a place to get some of the extra thoughts out of my brain, especially before bedtime (which is where I should be now), when even an Ambien can't make my brain shut completely off. The only time I seem to get sleepy lately is when I shouldn't, but since I've been doing the Atkins thing and have upped my daily Prozac to 40mg I haven't been dozing off after dinner as much.

But even as a child I remember laying in bed for hours wondering why I wasn't asleep, why my brain wouldn't stop racing. My dad likes to tell stories about how in the summer, when there would be the time change and I'd have to go to bed when it was still light out, how I would moan and complain. And when I do get to sleep I'm almost always plagued by overly vivid dreams (that I usually remember the next day).

Sparky, on the other hand, seems to have inherited his mother's ability to fall asleep in less than two minutes (narcolepsy, perhaps?). It's kind of spooky sometimes, we'll be talking and suddenly he's snoring away. And he doesn't usually remember any of his dreams (though he talks in his sleep, which is kind of alarming).

Given the choice, though, I'd choose to remember my dreams. But it would be nice to be able to fall asleep without pharmaceutical assistance...

Posted by Morticia at May 14, 2004 05:49 AM | TrackBack